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Last week, in a Plymouth, Mass, jail, Louis Bob Conley, 32, was serving the 35th month of what may be a self-imposed life sentence. All he had to do to gain release was to bring his daughter Lynette, 8, back from Texas to her mother in Brockton, Mass. But Conley is a proud and stubborn Texan. Said he: "I'll spend the rest of my life in prison before I bring her back...
...years ago Conley, then a Signal Corps sergeant, met and married pretty Lucille LaCroix. After the war the Conleys settled down in Amarillo. Lucille was unhappy. In January 1947 she shipped her clothes back to Brockton, borrowed $280 from loan companies, withdrew the Conleys' last $430 from the bank. Then one night she got Bob to take her to a movie. During the show she sneaked out, leaving Bob sitting in the theater, picked up the baby and caught a Brockton-bound plane...
...went to Brockton, got in a scuffle with Mother-in-Law LaCroix, took baby Lynette back to Amarillo, where she is still cared for by Bob's mother. Bob went to Massachusetts, where Probate Judge Harry Stone, who had given custody of the child to Lucille in a divorce action, sentenced Bob to nine months for contempt because he refused to bring Lynette back from Texas. Since then, Judge Stone has resentenced him four times, as each term expired...
Born. To Rocco Francis Marchegiano ("Rocky Marciano"), 29, world heavyweight boxing champion, and Barbara Cousins Marchegiano, 24: their first child, a daughter; in Brockton, Mass. Name: Mary Anne. Weight...
...Back Bay station at 3:25 p.m., where a motorcade will await. He will attend a "monster rally" at Boston Common at 3:50 p.m., proceed to Perkins Square at 4:45 p.m., rush to Quincy Square at 5:50 p.m., and soon thereafter take a train to Brockton...